<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>Please help forward to interested parties</i>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Call for
Papers (CFP): Workshop on <b>Robust and Reliable Autonomy in the Wild (R<sup>2</sup>AW)
</b>at IJCAI 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Website:
<a href="http://rbr.cs.umass.edu/r2aw/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">http://rbr.cs.umass.edu/r2aw/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Submission
deadline: April 30, 2021 (AoE) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Submission
link: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=r2aw" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=r2aw</a><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"> </span></span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Contact:
R2AW.ijcai21 [at] <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-Heading2Char" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">===Workshop Overview===</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">The
rapid development and deployment of autonomous systems in the open world has
highlighted the need for advances in the theory and practice of robust and
reliable AI. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from academia and
industry to discuss the challenges involved in deployed autonomous systems,
particularly systems that operate in the presence of minor perturbations or
noise in the environment, and under model imprecision and uncertainty. The
workshop will offer a forum for researchers to discuss progress, identify
knowledge gaps, and learn from case studies in robust and reliable
decision-making, drawing on a wide range of methods, including automated
planning, reinforcement learning, decision-theory, formal verification,
multi-agent systems, game theory, robotics, AI ethics, and human factors. We
welcome the participation of researchers from different disciplines
representing different perspectives on the topic. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Relevant
research challenges include (but are not limited to):</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc">
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Definitions of safety,
robustness, reliability, and resilience </span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Evaluation
metrics for robustness and reliability, under model imprecision </span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Decision-making
representations, models, and algorithms for the open world </span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Techniques
to achieve resilient decision-making, under unmodelled disturbances </span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Techniques
to recognize and avoid negative side effects of AI systems </span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Techniques
for ethical, interpretable, fair, and trustworthy decision-making </span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Case
studies of robustness and reliability in deployed autonomous systems
</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Learning
to improve robustness and reliability from human feedback </span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Models
and algorithms to support competence-aware autonomy </span></li>
</ul>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-Heading2Char" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">===Workshop Format and Submission
Guidelines===</span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">This
is a one-day workshop that will include keynote invited speakers, plenary
presentations of submitted papers, poster sessions, and discussion sessions.
Accepted papers will be presented as posters or contributed oral presentations.
The workshop will have electronic, non-archival proceedings. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Submissions
can be one of the following types:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc">
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Full technical paper (up to 8
pages) </span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Survey
paper (up to 8 pages) </span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Case-studies
describing the experiences with deployed systems (up to 8 pages) </span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Short
paper (up to 4 pages) </span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Position paper (up to 4 pages) </span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Short
papers may be of narrower scope, for example by addressing a highly specific
issue, or proposing or evaluating a small, yet important, extension of previous
work or new idea. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">There
is no page limit for references and supplementary materials. Authors should
rely on the supplementary material only to include details that do not fit in
the main paper. Submissions should be in PDF and formatted according to </span><a href="https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">IJCAI
2021 guidelines</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">.
Papers accepted or under review at other conferences can be submitted and
presented at the workshop, subject to the conference guidelines. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Submission
link: </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=r2aw" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=r2aw</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Contact:
R2AW.ijcai21 [at] <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-Heading2Char" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-Heading2Char" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">===Important Dates===</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Paper submission: April 30, 2021
(AoE) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Author
notification: May 25, 2021 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Camera-ready
submission: TBD</span></p>
<h2 style="margin:2pt 0in 0in;line-height:105%;break-after:avoid;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-Heading2Char" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">===Invited Speakers===</span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc">
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Tom Dietterich, Oregon State
University</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Anca Dragan, UC Berkeley</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<h2 style="margin:2pt 0in 0in;line-height:105%;break-after:avoid;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><span class="gmail-Heading2Char"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">===</span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Organizers<span class="gmail-Heading2Char" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span style="line-height:105%;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">===</span></span></span></h2>
<ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc">
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~nickh/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Nick Hawes</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">,
University of Oxford</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ecekamar.com/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Ece Kamar</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">,
Microsoft Research</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://ori.ox.ac.uk/people/bruno-lacerda/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Bruno Lacerda</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">
(Co-chair), University of Oxford</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.sandhyasai.com/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Sandhya Saisubramanian</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">
(Co-chair), University of Massachusetts Amherst</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://groups.cs.umass.edu/shlomo/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Shlomo Zilberstein</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">,
University of Massachusetts Amherst</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-Heading2Char" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">===Program Committee===</span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Alessandro
Abate, University of Oxford</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">David
Abel, DeepMind</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Ignacio
Alvarez, Intel Labs, USA</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Tapomayukh
"Tapo" Bhattacharjee, Cornell University</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Joydeep
Biswas, University of Texas, Austin</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Mathias
Bürger, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Xiaoping
Chen, University of Science and Technology of China</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Tesca
Fitzgerald, Carnegie Mellon University</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Igor
Gilitschenski, MIT</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Dylan
Hadfield-Mennel, UC Berkeley</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Christoffer
Heckman, University of Colorado, Boulder</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Erez
Karpas, Technion</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Sarah
Keren, Harvard University, Hebrew University</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Mykel
Kochenderfer, Stanford University</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Jana
Koehler, Saarland University</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Masoumeh
Mansouri, University of Birmingham</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Sheila
McIlraith, University of Toronto</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Abdel-Illah
Mouaddib, University of Caen Basse-Normandie</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">David
Parker, University of Birmingham</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Marek
Petrik, University of New Hampshire</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Ramya
Ramakrishnan, ASAPP Inc.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Matthijs
Spaan, Delft University of Technology</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Florent
Teichteil-Koenigsbuch, Airbus AI Research</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Pratap
Tokekar, University of Maryland</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Vaibhav
Unhelkar, Rice University</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Best,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sandhya</p></div>